Species Ectopatria spilonata (Lower, 1902)
- Agrotis spilonata Lower, O.B. 1902. Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26: 639-671 [Date published 20 May 1902: the journal issue was scheduled for 1901] [641].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA ♀, Blackwood, SA. - Ectopatria spilomata Hampson, G.F. 1903. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 4 xx 689 pp. [653, pl. 77, fig. 26].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA ♀, Blackwood, SA [as 'VICTORIA [sic!]: Blackwood'].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, SA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)
Ecological Descriptors
Larvae have been recorded as feeding on Atriplex vesicaria (Chenopodiaceae) [ANIC record].
General References
Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds) 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [380: Note #735] (Ectopatria spilonata (Lower, 1902) is not a senior secondary homonym of E. spilomata Hampson, 1903, but the former is a senior objective synonym of the latter as both names were based on the same holotype)
History of changes
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